A couple of months after the handbook was released I was trying to get access to it. At that time I didn’t have university library access and even if I did there were only two copies in the entire city. I actually drove 45 minutes away to a university that had the book not checked out and spent a couple of days reading it and consolidating the information in the form of notes and supermemo entries.
(I would like to crop the margins, but pdfcrop results in doubled file size; I’d also like to remove the headers & footers, but none of my PDF CLI tools seem to support that.)
If I were the sort of person who did morally grey things like that I would totally have used TextAloud and selected an academic sounding voice (Graham) to read the text to mp3 files. Then right now I would have it on my ipod so that I could listen to it on my ipod while commuting and exercising. Actually, that isn’t quite true. I would have the first chapter and expecting the rest to be spoken to file by tomorrow.
A couple of months after the handbook was released I was trying to get access to it. At that time I didn’t have university library access and even if I did there were only two copies in the entire city. I actually drove 45 minutes away to a university that had the book not checked out and spent a couple of days reading it and consolidating the information in the form of notes and supermemo entries.
To my great surprise, turned out my library had access to an e-copy of it. I took an hour and printed out all 47 entries to PDFs, and combined them to get this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5317066/cambridge-expertise.pdf
(I would like to crop the margins, but
pdfcropresults in doubled file size; I’d also like to remove the headers & footers, but none of my PDF CLI tools seem to support that.)LW! Never say I have done nothing for you!
Wow. Nice work.
If I were the sort of person who did morally grey things like that I would totally have used TextAloud and selected an academic sounding voice (Graham) to read the text to mp3 files. Then right now I would have it on my ipod so that I could listen to it on my ipod while commuting and exercising. Actually, that isn’t quite true. I would have the first chapter and expecting the rest to be spoken to file by tomorrow.